Moon trowel

ABSTRACT

The Moon Trowel is a tool of convenience. Because of the unique design and shape of the blade, anyone who uses it will not want to be without it. Its convex shaped blade matches perfectly with the inside contour of a five gallon bucket enabling the user to efficiently retrieve all materials, whatever they may be, from the inside of a bucket with little waste or effort. The idea is simple, match the shape of the trowel blade to the inside shape of a five gallon bucket which comes out to be a curve of 5&amp;⅝ inch radius. A perfect fit means no manipulation of the tool to get it to work properly. Tools should not have to be manipulated to work . . . they should just work. The Moon Trowel works extremely well.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The Moon Trowel will be a useful and efficient tool to anyoneinvolved in the construction field.

[0002] It retrieves material such as joint compound for sheetrock(tapers trade), cement or mortar including thin-set mortar for ceramictile (masonry and laborers trade) and tar (roofers trade) out of fivegallon buckets with absolutely zero waste. All the material inside thebucket is efficiently retrieved. Five gallon buckets are the mostcommonly used because they are so abundant and are just the right sizefor handling and transporting materials from one place to another.

[0003] Presently and, prior to my invention, the only tool available toget materials out of a five gallon bucket is any trowel with a straightedged blade. Using a straight edged tool to get something out of a roundbucket is awkward, time consuming, and wasteful.

[0004] The manufacturing and marketing of the Moon Trowel will savecontractors and do-it-yourselfers time and money.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0005] Prior to my invention, anyone wishing to get materials such asjoint compound, mortar or cement, thin set mortar, or tar out of a fivegallon bucket would have to settle to use a trowel with a straightblade.

[0006] Because the inside of a five gallon bucket is curved (5%⅝ inchradius) the straight blade trowel would have to be manipulated in amanner as to retrieve the material, thus some of the material would falloff the trowel and remain in the bucket.

[0007] The Moon Trowel cures this. Its blade is shaped to the exactcontour of the inside of a five gallon bucket. The Moon Trowel's solepurpose is to retrieve materials from within a five gallon bucket.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

[0008]FIG. 1:

[0009]1) shows the front view of the Moon Trowel.

[0010]2) points to the convex curve which makes the moon trowel uniquefrom others. The curve is a 5&⅝ inch radius curve.

[0011]3) points to the blade body. The blade is 6 inches wide from leftto right and 4 inches high from the top of the handle to the top of theconvex curve.

[0012]4) points to the handle of the trowel.

[0013]FIG. 2

[0014]5) shows the side view of the Moon Trowel.

[0015]6) points to the side view of the blade body. The blade isapproximately {fraction (1/16)} of an incch thick.

[0016]7) points to the side view of the handle which is approximately ¾of an inch thick.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0017] The Moon Trowel is a very simple tool. Simple to both use andmake. To use it, grasp the tool by the handle (FIG. 1 ref.# 4) and useit to retrieve whtever material you need to get out of a five gallonbucket. The blade (FIG. 1 ref.#3) is shaped to meet and match the insidewalls of a five gallon bucket. When retrieving materials with the MoonTrowel, you press the blade of the trowel against the inside of thebucket and using an upward motion, scrape the walls of the bucket clean.By the time the materials are used up, the Moon Trowel will have scrapedout ALL (100%) of the material from the inside of the bucket.

[0018] The making of the Moon Trowel is just as easy as using it. Tomake or manufacture it, all you need to do is design a concave shapeddie in which you stamp out a convex shaped blade. The die in this casewould have a concave curve of 5&⅝ inch radius. When the die stamps outthe blade, you are left with a convex shaped blade consisting of thesame 5&⅝ inch radius curve (FIG. 1 ref.# 2).

[0019] In the past and present, anyone wishing to get materials out of afive gallon bucket has to settle for a trowel with a straight blade.This would be ideal if materials came in square five gallon buckets withflat sides, but they do not. They come in round five gallon buckets withcurved sides.

[0020] The specific improement is really the shape of the blade (FIG. 1ref #2 and 3)

1. “What I claim as my invention is the Moon Trowel which has a convexshaped blade with a 5&⅝ inch radius curve.”